How to Install VS Code on Ubuntu 24.04

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to install VS Code on Ubuntu 24.04. VS Code, an acronym for Visual Studio code is a free and lightweight source code editor developed by Microsoft that is used by programmers to edit, debug and manage their source codes. VS Code support various programming languages. If you are a programmer and you are running an Ubuntu 24.04 desktop system, it would really be handy to have VS Code installed.

Installing Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 24.04

There are multiple ways in which one can use to install VS Code on an Ubuntu 24.04 box. These include;

  1. Install VS Code from Microsoft Code APT Repository
  2. Installing VS Code using Prebuilt Debian Binary
  3. Install from Snapstore
  4. Installing from Flathub

Install VS Code on Ubuntu fro MS Code APT Repository

Microsoft maintains a repository for distributing packages related to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). You need to install this repository on Ubuntu 24.04 system.

Therefore, run system package cache update;

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Reboot if needed;

[ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo systemctl reboot

install some required packages.

sudo apt install wget gnupg2 apt-transport-https

Install repository signing GPG key;

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg

Then install the repository itself;

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

Run system update and install VS Code on Ubuntu;

sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

Installing VS Code using Prebuilt Debian Binary

You can download prebuilt debian binary from the downloads page.

Or simply get the download link address and pull down the binary using wget or curl command.

wget https://vscode.download.prss.microsoft.com/dbazure/download/stable/e170252f762678dec6ca2cc69aba1570769a5d39/code_1.88.1-1712771838_amd64.deb

The install it;

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Reboot if required.

[ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo systemctl reboot

Then install VS Code using prebuilt binary;

sudo apt install ./code_1.88.1-1712771838_amd64.deb

Launching VS Code

Installing VS Code via Snap store

VS Code is also distributed on Snap store. Since snap is already installed on Ubuntu 24.04, you can simply install the code using the command below;

sudo snap install --classic code

Launch VS Code

Install Code from Flathub

VS Code is also distributed in Flathub. To install it from Flathub on Ubuntu 24.04;

Install Flatpak package manager;

sudo apt install flatpak

Enable Flathub repository;

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Get VS Code app ID from the repository;

sudo flatpak search code | grep "Visual Studio Code"
Visual Studio Code	Code editing. Redefined.	com.visualstudio.code	1.88.0	stable	flathub
Code - OSS	Visual Studio Code. Code editing. Redefined.	com.visualstudio.code-oss	1.74.3	stable	flathub

So the VS Code Flathub app ID is com.visualstudio.code.

sudo flatpak install com.visualstudio.code
Looking for matches…
Required runtime for com.visualstudio.code/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/23.08) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: y

com.visualstudio.code permissions:
    ipc          network                pulseaudio             ssh-auth                      x11            devices
    devel        file access [1]        dbus access [2]        system dbus access [3]        tags [4]

    [1] host
    [2] com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar, com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar.*, org.freedesktop.Flatpak, org.freedesktop.Notifications, org.freedesktop.secrets
    [3] org.freedesktop.login1
    [4] proprietary


        ID                                             Branch                 Op            Remote             Download
 1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default            23.08                  i             flathub            164.6 MB / 164.6 MB
 2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default            23.08-extra            i             flathub             18.5 MB / 164.6 MB
 3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264              2.2.0                  i             flathub            886.7 kB / 944.3 kB
 4. [✓] org.freedesktop.Sdk.Locale                     23.08                  i             flathub             18.1 kB / 366.1 MB
 5. [✓] org.freedesktop.Sdk                            23.08                  i             flathub            482.6 MB / 559.5 MB
 6. [✓] com.visualstudio.code                          stable                 i             flathub            105.9 MB / 107.7 MB

Installing 6/6… ███████████████████▍  97%  105.9 MB/s
Note that '/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share' is not in the search path
set by the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS
        ID                                             Branch                 Op            Remote             Download
 1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default            23.08                  i             flathub            164.6 MB / 164.6 MB
 2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default            23.08-extra            i             flathub             18.5 MB / 164.6 MB
 3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264              2.2.0                  i             flathub            886.7 kB / 944.3 kB
 4. [✓] org.freedesktop.Sdk.Locale                     23.08                  i             flathub             18.1 kB / 366.1 MB
 5. [✓] org.freedesktop.Sdk                            23.08                  i             flathub            482.6 MB / 559.5 MB
 6. [✓] com.visualstudio.code                          stable                 i             flathub            105.9 MB / 107.7 MB

Installation complete.

Launching VS Code on Ubuntu 24.04

Irrespective of the method of installation, you should now be able to launch and use VS Code.

Install VS Code on Ubuntu 24.04

You can also launch from command line. If you installed VS Code using APT/Snap, run the command code from the terminal;

code

If you installed from Flathub, check installed apps and launch;

flatpak list
flatpak run com.visualstudio.code

Next, get started by selecting your theme and enable other options and mark done.

setup vs code ubuntu

Get started with VS Code;

get started with vs code

And that is how simple it is to install VS Code on Ubuntu 24.04.

Getting Started with VS Code

You can now get started with VS Code.

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